Georgetown University Press (2004)
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Health, Disease, and Illness brings together a sterling list of classic and contemporary thinkers to examine the history, state, and future of ever-changing "concepts" in medicine.
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Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race.(Originally Published in 1851.) Reprinted In: Caplan AL, McCartney JJ, and Sisti DA (Eds.). Health, Disease, and Illness. Concepts in Medicine. [REVIEW]S. A. Cartwright
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